Cover for garden-frames.



S. 81.1. NEWTON.

COVER FOR GARDEN FRAMES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30.1915.

1,177,439. Patented Mar. 28, 1916.

' 7 fa im Min c072 Attorneys.

THE COLUMBIA PLANOGIMPH 60.. WASHINGTON, D. c.

SAMUEL NEWTON AND JOHN NEWTON, OF STALEYIBRIDGE, ENGLAND.

COVER FOR GARDEN-FRAMES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 28, 1916.

Application filed June 30, 1915. Serial No. 37,267.

of Chester, England, have invented certain I new and useful Improvements in Covers for Garden-Frames, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the covers of garden frames and has for its object to provide improved means for enabling the said covers to be tilted over the end of the frame into a vertical position and to be firmly held in said position without the necessity for lifting the covers off the frames and placing them in sockets at the frame end as at present usual.

Our invention comprises the provision of elongated slots or grooves in the opposite sides of each cover and of pivot pins or projections in the fixed frame, so disposed that when a cover is slid toward the end of the frame at which it is to stand in a vertical position, the said pins enter said slots and finally engage the closed ends of same when the cover can be ,angularly moved about said pins as pivots in the manner hereinafter described.

Referring to the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings Figure 1 is a view of a garden frame having our invention applied thereto. Figs. 2 and 3 are detail views to be hereinafter referred to. r

The same reference letters in the three views indicate the same parts.

e make the fixed bars or stiles a to project slightly beyond the end of the framework and provide pivot pins 1) in such projecting ends. Each side of the tip-up member or movable member 0 has a long slot (1 formed therein, the said slot extending for preferably more than half the length of the light and having a metal plate 6 at the closed end to form a socket for its pivot pin 1) when the movable member a is slid over the end of the frame so that it may be tilted into a vertical position, as shown at the right hand side of Fig. 1.

To tilt the cover into its vertical position, it is slid upward in the frame so that pins I) enter the slots (1 therein. \Vhen the pins engage the closed ends of the grooves, the cover will fulcrum about the pins and move to the vertical position. A suitable catch may engage the handle f upon the cover and hold the same in place.

Having now described our invention what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is In garden frames comprising in combination a fixed framework, bars extending beyond said framework, pins projecting toward one another from the extended parts of adjacent bars, and a cover member carried in said fixed framework and adapted to slide transversely thereof, said cover member having formed in its opposite side edges, grooves closed at one end and extending longitudinally thereof for more than half the length of the member, said grooves adapted to engage with said pins as the cover member is slid into open position and thereby permit the cover to be fulcrumed about the pins as pivots until it assumes a vertical position.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. v

SAMUEL NEWTON. JOHN NEWTON.

Witnesses:

An'rnun Hoar-ms, HILDA HUGHES- copies 0! this patent maybe obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

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